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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 146741" data-attributes="member: 23">Series Twenty Nine is now underway. Smiler&#039;s now vanished forever from the landscape. While I was never a huge fan of his gurning and groaning - too much caricature for my taste - one does get used to these characters being part of things and it&#039;s not the same when they&#039;re not there. Speaking of gurning, my Barry tolerance is right down once again. After the long break I started finding him tolerable, but his little mannerisms have quickly nixed that. There&#039;s far too much business going on in all Mike Grady&#039;s scenes: twitching with surprise, grimacing and mugging, smiling wistfully and that rapid multiple blink thing. It&#039;s a shame, because it comes across strongly that he&#039;s trying too hard to do comedy and he doesn&#039;t have to. The writing has everything he needs. Pretty much everyone else - even those playing larger than life characters such as Howard, Marina and Nora - plays their scenes for truth and they&#039;re so much funnier for it. Sad to think I&#039;m now on the last series featuring Nora. She still feels very much like a vital part of the series and it will be a far less enjoyable series without her. We have another nine episodes together and I aim to enjoy them all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 146741, member: 23"] Series Twenty Nine is now underway. Smiler's now vanished forever from the landscape. While I was never a huge fan of his gurning and groaning - too much caricature for my taste - one does get used to these characters being part of things and it's not the same when they're not there. Speaking of gurning, my Barry tolerance is right down once again. After the long break I started finding him tolerable, but his little mannerisms have quickly nixed that. There's far too much business going on in all Mike Grady's scenes: twitching with surprise, grimacing and mugging, smiling wistfully and that rapid multiple blink thing. It's a shame, because it comes across strongly that he's trying too hard to do comedy and he doesn't have to. The writing has everything he needs. Pretty much everyone else - even those playing larger than life characters such as Howard, Marina and Nora - plays their scenes for truth and they're so much funnier for it. Sad to think I'm now on the last series featuring Nora. She still feels very much like a vital part of the series and it will be a far less enjoyable series without her. We have another nine episodes together and I aim to enjoy them all. [/QUOTE]

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